The annual Pro-Am Snipe Hunt is today in Moultrie, Georgia, along with the Snipe Ball, celebrating the return of the Denim Snipe from the brink of extinction. Ask Beth Gay about the Snipe Museum and the Snipe-O-Rama race track.

On this date in ......

1967: The Country Music Hall of Fame opened in Nashville, a glass and brick museum shaped like a barn. The first inductees: Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Fred Rose, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and Tex Ritter.

Happy Birthday to astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, born on this date in 1926. He, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in 1967 in a prelaunch exercise with the Apollo 1 mission. Anyone privileged to run the Rocket City Marathon can tell you about the phenomenal cheering and support by the JROTC at Grissom High School in Huntsville.

You really ought to know this. The human body is a machine that is full of wonder. This collection of human body facts will leave you wondering why in the heck we were designed the way we were.

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

-A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

-It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

-At the moment of conception, you spend about half an hour as a single cell.

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.

-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

-Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

At this very moment I know full well you are putting this last fact to the test...now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as well.